Signed Limited Edition of Aucassin and Nicolete

Andrew Lang, trans. AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE. London: David Nutt, 1887. Limited edition; no. 61 of sixty-three total copies on Japanese paper (of which only fifty-three were for sale). Signed by the publisher on the limitation; this copy additionally signed by Andrew Lang on the front free endpaper. Original stiff card wraps covered with pictorial stiff card dust wrapper; presented in a custom, recently hand-crafted clamshell box. 8vo; xx, 70pp. Frontispiece by George Percy Jacomb-Hood; printed in black and red.

Book 8 7/8 x 5 3/8 in.; Box 9 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.

Per the consignor, this copy was originally in the collection of George Percy Jacomb-Hood, and later inherited by his great niece.

Quite scarce, and with the additional signature of the translator.

Dust wrapper with areas of toning (darkest at the spine), light creasing, soiling including a few small damp stains and some staining on the back cover, and mild wear to corners and spine ends; toning and light creasing to wraps with areas of splitting along front joint and spine; heavy cracking at the gutter before the introduction with a couple of additional minor areas of gutter cracking; tissue guard present but detached; occasional light toning, edge wear, and grime/mark to the interior, with a rare spot of foxing; About very good in a fine box.